WBRS Sports Blog

This is for Teddy Ballgame.
This is for Dom Dimagg..
This is for Johnny Pesky,
Fisk and Yaz.

Raise the flag! The curse is over.
The Babe don't live here anymore.

This is for Teddy Ballgame
And this is for Bobby Doerr.

They won it for Dewey Evans.
They won it for Tony C.
Tiant and Petrocelli,
Remy, Rice and Lee.

Raise the flag (something I can't make out)
The curse is banished when you win
They won it for Dewey Evans,
they won it for Freddie Lynn.

Hail, Hail Red Sox Nation,
both the present and the past.
Hey, hey, daddy can you hear me?
we're champs at last!
We're champs at last!

So this is for Curt and Kenny Coleman,
their voices echo through the New England night.
And this is for Bill Buckner.
It's all right. It's all right.

Raise the flag, the curse is over,
those idiots made us all believe,
So this is for Johnny Damon,
Schilling, Manny and Ortiz.

Raise the flag and damn the curse, boys.
The bambino don't live here anymore.
So this is for Teddy Ballgame,
This is for Bobby Doerr,
Yeah, this for Teddy Ballgame,
Dominic, Pesky and Doerr.

-Terry Cashman, 2004